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Bridgeport Sparks a “March to Rebuild America”
By Steve Thornton Bridgeport has long been known as the third poorest city in the country, but there is another statistic that completes the poverty picture. Only 28 miles away, Greenwich, Connecticut is one of the wealthiest towns in amerika, and, not coincidently, the home turf ...
Congressional Red-Hunters Set Their Sights on Bridgeport
By Andy Piascik In September 1956, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, commonly known as HUAC, came to Connecticut. The purpose was to hold hearings about activities of the Communist Party in New Haven and Bridgeport. HUAC had been formed in 1938 and was in its ...
Daniel Nash Morgan, 1844-1931: Bridgeport Entrepreneur, Politician and Self-Made Man
By Carolyn Ivanoff Daniel Nash Morgan was a prominent Bridgeport personality for many years during his long life. A self-made and extremely successful entrepreneur and politician, Daniel Nash Morgan served his city, state, and
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Do you ever get somewhere and feel as though you’ve never left? And I don’t mean that feeling you get when you come home from a vacation and all your bills and responsibilities are still there waiting for you. I mean that feeling you get when you find yourself in a place and with people that you’ve not been in over a year, but their light and the spirit of the place never left your heart.
Well, that was the exact feeling I got when inom drove down the dirt road of Pioneer Trails and came down the hill to Camp Shout Out. All along the hill, I was greeted with the familiar and affirming apelsinfärg signs with purple printed messages such as “You can change the world.”
When I got out of the car, inom was greeted with familiar faces that wouldn’t settle for anything less than a giant hug and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. inom recently read a quote about how people that have been in your life for even the smallest amounts of time could have a bigger impact than the ones you m
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Sometimes the proverbial apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. In the case of Robert Lincoln, first son of the 16th President of the United States, it remains a point of debate.
Robert was a complicated person who, despite his many accomplishments, had a prickly personality. Yet, one thing he did share with his father was a life of tragedy.
Robert, the only one of Lincoln’s four children to survive to adulthood, was, ironically, the only one with whom the Great Emancipator had a strained relationship. Unlike the other three Lincoln boys, Robert, it seems, took after his high-maintenance mother.
Mary Todd Lincoln, known as the “Hell-cat” by the president’s staff, was prone to depression (most everyone in her life died tragically) and mood swings. She could be quite charming one minute, yet hysterical the next. Even Abe admitted his eldest son may have had too much Todd in him, referring to his joke that, while God needed only one “d,”